Redneck Judge Sends Lawyer to Jail For Refusing to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Miss. judge jails attorney for not reciting pledge


TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge sent a lawyer to jail for several hours for his refusal to say the pledge of allegiance in open court. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn told a court audience to rise and say the pledge. People in the courtroom said Danny Lampley of Oxford stood but did not say the words.

Records show Lampley was booked into the Lee County jail at 9:40 a.m. and released about 2:30 p.m. on the judge's orders.

Lampley did not immediately return a call to The Associated Press. Littlejohn was not immediately available through his office in New Albany or the court administrator's office in Tupelo.

A spokesman for no one in particular said Judge Littlejohn was a fool who consistently abused his authority and was a disgrace to the Mississippi judiciary. Judge Littlejohn denied the allegations, calling them "a lot of poppycock."